Most plant books just teach you the plant's name. This book gives you stories to tell'botany, folklore and uses. Nearby plants can be truly remarkable. Our common and conspicuous plants are sources of weaving materials or edible fruit or rubber. Did you know? Buffalo grass feeds buffalo or cows year round.' Deathcamas is so poisonous most bees won't visit it.' Yucca's fibrous leaves and stiff points can be used as a needle and thread.These and more are the stories of 15 of the most visible plants of Northern Colorado, told in this book.

From bulb lawns to the never summer garden, from perennials with fortitude to annuals that span the seasons, Lauren Springer delivers us the stalwart garden. With infectious enthusiasm, she offers down-to-earth advice and recommendations for sturdy, effortless, and beautiful plants and how to compose them with style.

Typewritten report of plant ecology trip taken in summer of 1919 in Northern Colorado by class from University of Chicago under Dr. G.D. Fuller.